State v. Newton

COOKS, Judge.

| .¿FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

On the evening of March 27, 2010, Brandon Newton, his older brother, Sean, his cousin, Joshua Lambert, and three friends, Andre Broussard, Jarius Watson, and Marlon Kelly, left the Prien Lake Mall in Sean Newton’s car and drove to a neighborhood behind the mall called “Brownsville” in anticipation of fighting with another gang of young men. The confrontation had begun at the mall, but the two groups were sent out of the mall by the security guards. Sean Newton had in his posses*12sion a handgun. Defendant, Brandon Newton, was riding in the backseat.…